The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1887-12-09

An employee at the tub factory
named Crouch, was badly cut on the
right hand Saturday while at work. The
third and fourth fingers were cut off and
the hand somewhat mutilated. DIR. j
w. Andrews dressed the wound.
"A letter was sent from the MankatC
postoffice by Mr.. j. III. Davis, now Of
Minneapolis, Aug. 6, 1883, and was re-
turned to him from the dead letter office
last Friday. The markings on it showed
that it had seen considerable travel dur
ing the past four years.
The seasons work at the cement
mill is about completed. The quarry
and tunnel forces have quit work and
grinding will likely be discontinued the
present week. The company has done
a good business the past season and
has been continually rushed TO keep
up with orders.
From TUESDAYS DAILY FREE PRESS
Licenses to wed were granted yes
terday to Harvey Wiswell and Mary j,
Wade, and to-day to Nelson Conklin, OF
Garden City, and Rosa Isaac.
Mr.. Louis Conrad, and old gentle
man eighty-one years of age, died at his
home in this city yesterday morning, of
inflammation of the lungs. The funeral
occurred to-day.
Mrs. Phelps, an old lady eightv-six
years of age, had the misfortune to fall
Saturday and fractured her hip. She is
under the care of Drs. Andrews and
Davis and is doing as we'll as could be
expected of one of her age.
The Baptist denomination expect TO
erect their new church next Summer,
and work to this end will be commenced
with the opening of spring. This will
be one ofthe finest houses of worship to
be found in any of our interior cities.
We are informed by Mr.. James King
that workmen who have been digging a
well for the Omaha railroad company in
the vicinity of Mountain Lake recently
found piece of wood imbedded in a
solid strata of blue clay, - feet below
the surface. AS the country in that Vi
cinity is of a level character the discov-
cry is truly remarkable. The wood
seemed to be in 4 pre- served state and
unpetrtied.
The report of the health officer for
November shows that there were twen-
ty-nine births and one death in this city
during that month. The death was
that of a girl who came from Mapleton
to receive the attendance of physician
after having been sick for months, and
this can not properly be classed under
the deaths of this city. The sanitary
of the city is fair. This report
is one that every citizen may well point
to with pride. Nothing can better show
the healthfulness of our climate than
this record for city of over 10000 in
habitants. We can safely challenge any
other city in the country to produce a
better showing.
According to Madelia correspond
ent leprosy isn't quite so uncommon as
supposed: "Ottertail and Wilkin coun-
ties are put as the only ones in the state
where leprosy, or spedelek, exists.
There is probably more or less of it in
every large Norwegian settlement
when they came from the coasts. Cases
are reported six or eight miles north of
here in Brown county. One man is said
to have died of the disease last year,
and others in the same neighborhood
have 1t. The disease is not considered
contagious among those people as the
regular leprosy, but is very loathsome."